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151. Greece: Mother of 12 year old accused of abetting pedophiles

The man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, then pimping her out to prospective “clients” online, and one of the 213 men who responded to the pimp’s advertisement were jailed Wednesday....

152. Men arrested after bride kidnapping goes awry

Three men have been arrested on breaking and entering charges following a failed attempt to steal a young female from the household who secretly got hitched to her beau without dad’s blessing...

153. Cyprus is bursting, like a fat guy out of his leotard

Cyprus’ changing demographics are causing havoc to the real estate market, accentuating socio-economic imbalances and creating polarised communities. A bit dramatic? Let’s see....

154. Limassol school mom takes law into own hands

A woman in Limassol is being accused of assaulting a male high schooler in broad daylight, with media reports sowing confusion as to whether her teen daughter was also an aggressor in the incident or a victim of ongoing bullying that the school was unable to handle...

155. Turkish dissident detained after brutal assault

A foreign national is in remanded custody in Cyprus after being accused of kidnapping a man in Ayia Napa as well as assaulting him and his former girlfriend in her apartment in Paralimni...

156. School mom reacts to bullying video in Limassol

A video showing a bullying incident has gone viral in Cyprus where a crowd of students at a junior high in Limassol allegedly ganged up on a boy in the yard, prompting a shocked mother who also saw the footage to take to Facebook and warn that school delinquency was out of control...

157. Police told to gather more evidence in pool death probe

A police investigation into the fatal drowning of a young girl in a hotel pool in Paphos has been extended a third time, after state prosecutors asked law enforcement to go back and clarify a number of issues and technicalities...

158. Police shore up team in hotel pool death probe

A police investigation into a fatal drowning of a young child in a hotel pool in Paphos has been enhanced, with more agencies involved as they question everyone to figure out what went wrong...

159. Police examine video footage in hotel pool death

The death of a little girl, who drowned in water after going for a splash in the wrong swimming pool at a hotel in Paphos, continued to shock public opinion in Cyprus, with investigators still unsure how the child sank to the bottom without anyone taking notice...

160. Conflicting details surface in hotel pool death

Police say CID Paphos are investigating an apparent drowning incident following the death of a little girl at a hotel swimming pool on Sunday, with exact circumstances of the fatality not yet fully known...

161. Child dead after going to wrong hotel pool

A little girl was found dead on Sunday in a hotel swimming pool in Paphos, where she was vacationing with her parents, with reports still unclear whether lifeguards saw her going into the wrong pool...

162. Real life Doogie Howser heads to medical school at age 13

A 13-year-old girl has been accepted to a medical school program only a year after graduating high school....

163. A 62-year-old woman relives the horrors of war during the 1974 Turkish invasion

Forty-eight years are not enough for a young girl to forget the systematic rape at the hands of Turkish soldiers, during the 1974 Turkish invasion. ...

164. Cyprus upgraded to Tier 1 in US Trafficking in Persons report

The Ministry of Justice and Public Order has welcomed the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons report for 2022 released on Tuesday noting the upgrade of Cyprus to Tier 1 status. ...

165. Abortion debate spills over into Cyprus

Officials in the Republic of Cyprus say sexual and reproductive rights of women on the island are being trampled in the absence of clear protocols, with access to abortion and long-term contraception being put on the line in the southern part...

166. Exness supports technology education in Cyprus through Robotex Platinum sponsorship

167. Warden alleges illegal activity to undermine her

Nicosia Central Prisons Warden Anna Aristotelous is launching a complaint against a high-ranking police official, accusing him of enlisting a convicted informant to seek videos that could be politically harmful to the country’s top corrections officer...

168. British rape accuser drags Cyprus to court

A British young woman who was cleared of lying about a gang rape in Ayia Napa is taking the Republic of Cyprus to the European Court of Human Rights after police said they would not investigate allegations against Israeli teens...

169. NYT: Deep in Vatican Archives, Scholar Discovers 'Flabbergasting' Secrets

David Kertzer put down his cappuccino, put on his backpack, and went digging for more Vatican secrets....

170. Woman says bishop sexually assaulted her as a teen

Former Kition bishop Chrysostomos is facing more sexual assault charges after his acquittal in a rape case last year, with a new female accuser saying he assaulted her when she was seeking orphan aid from the church at the age of 16...

171. Pro-vax dad wins appeal against anti-vax mom

An appeals panel in the Republic of Cyprus has ruled that a district judge was wrong in siding with the mother of two teenage girls, whose father had sought a court order to get the girls vaccinated for coronavirus over mom’s objection...

172. Cyprus praised for its commitment to children's rights

Law Commissioner Louiza Christodoulidou Zannetou and the delegation that represented the Republic of Cyprus in the 90th Summit of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, returned with positive remarks from Geneva....

173. Man with schizophrenia convicted of premeditated murders

A man with schizophrenia has been convicted on premeditated murder charges for killing his wife and son in rural Nicosia last year, with the bench dismissing his insanity defense after finding there was no provocation...

174. Boris Becker faces jail term for failing to declare his millions

Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker could be sent to jail today as he faces a sentence for flouting the terms of his 2017 bankruptcy....

175. Father pleads not guilty in preemie’s death

A man accused of killing his newborn premature baby has denied manslaughter charges, with the judge ordering him back to jail until his trial beings after the summer...

176. Cyprus reports case of unexplained acute hepatitis

Health officials in the Republic of Cyprus reported that a young child was diagnosed back in February with acute hepatitis of unexplained origin, as cases emerge across the world and some experts fearing lockdowns could be the culprit...

177. Pafos FC sexy pep talk gets cold shower

A video teaser showing sexy girls in support of a football team in Paphos has been pulled down after a women’s group criticized the video for being sexist...

178. Alleged child killer given more time to prepare defense

Α 33-year-old woman charged with intentionally killing her 9-year-old daughter was on Thursday given until Monday to prepare her defense....

179. Cyprus has highest rate of femicides by population compared to other countries in study

A total of 13 femicides were committed in Cyprus between 2019 and 2020, with the victims in two cases being young girls....

180. Op-ed: You can help 'Break the Bias' against women

This year for Women’s History month, in Cyprus, the United States, and around the world we recognized the achievements of women and girls, celebrated progress made towards achieving equality, and recommitted ourselves to ensuring the full measure of dignity and opportunity due all humans is available to women everywhere. ...